The Father of Genetics. Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated until after his death. He is now called the "Father of Genetics," but he was remembered as a gentle ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome ... Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor Mendel, Darwin's contemporary, solved this problem in the mid-nineteenth century.

Although Gregor Mendel developed his groundbreaking principles of inheritance in the mid-1800s, the importance of his work went largely unnoticed by the scientific community until the early 1900s.

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity ... Mendel was far ahead of his time, and his work was largely ignored for the next 35 years. In 1868 he was appointed as an abbot and ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants ... a measured look at the Mendel mania occurring among his contemporaries. “[Mendel’s work] was very exciting—even ...

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on ...

Barbara McClintock’s pioneering work in genetics began just two decades after biologists rediscovered Gregor Mendel’s work on heredity in 1900. After refining chromosome-staining techniques, ...

This is where Gregor Mendel, a friar at the Augustinian ... center for scientific research and was so supportive of Mendel’s work that he had a greenhouse built to expand the monk’s outdoor ...